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> I don't think one can really blame the Estate of Martin Luther King for enforcing the rights given to them by law. You can absolutely blame people for doing
by chc 8y ago
> I don't think one can really blame the Estate of Martin Luther King for enforcing the rights given to them by law.
You can absolutely blame people for doing that. An action's legality and blameworthiness are completely separate things. Many legal things are blameworthy (e.g. talking in a movie theater, adultery, tricking people into eating items their religion forbids). The idea that you can't blame people for doing things they're allowed to do under the law seems to assume that everything bad should be illegal, which would result in a pretty draconian state of affairs.